The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) are pleased to announce a partnership to fund medical students doing research in ophthalmology, particularly those investigating inherited retinal degenerative diseases. We would appreciate your publicizing the new initiative to your faculty members and medical students as quickly as possible. The deadline for applications is January 11, 2010.
FFB will fund up to four research fellowships for medical students through the HHMI Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students Program. The purpose of the initiative is to foster the development of physician-scientists conducting research in inherited retinal disorders. The year-long fellowships will begin in the summer of 2010 and students may apply during any year of medical school. Applicants in the last year of medical school must defer graduation until completion of the fellowship.
The HHMI Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students Program (Medical Fellows Program) enables medical, dental, and veterinary students from U.S. schools to spend a year conducting basic, translational, or applied biomedical research at any school or nonprofit research institution in the United States, except at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. For the 2010-2011 program year, Fellows will receive a stipend of $27,000, a fellow’s allowance of $5,500 that may be used for health care and other expenses, and a $5,500 research allowance.
The application deadline is January 11, 2010. For further information, visit: www.hhmi.org/medfellowships
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